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Stitchin' and Pullin'

A Gee's Bend Quilt

by McKissack, Patricia C.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, grandmother and granddaughter, aunt and niece, friend and friend. For a hundred years, generations of women from Gee’s Bend have quilted...

Manjiro

The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries

by McCully, Emily Arnold

This is the true story of a determined and resourceful young man whose intimate knowledge of two cultures later led him to play an important role in the openin...

The Human Body

by Simon, Seymour

One hundred trillion cells, more than 600 muscles, and over 200 bones—these are parts of the twelve major systems that make up the human body. Technological ...

The Dragonfly Pool

by Ibbotson, Eva

At first Tally doesn’t want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But she soon discovers that it is a wonderful place where freedom and selfexpressi...

Crossing to Paradise

by Crossley-Holland, Kevin

When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to Lo...

Paddington Here and Now

by Bond, Michael

With trouble apparently following him everywhere he roams, lovable Paddington Bear must use his charm and wit to straighten out dilemmas involving a grouchy ne...

Paleo Bugs

Survival of the Creepiest

by Bradley, Timothy J.

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The Girl Who Saw Lions

by Doherty, Berlie

"BE STRONG MY ABELA." Orphaned by AIDS in Africa, Abela has a long journey ahead.When Abela’s mother dies of Aids in their African village, she is left to fa...

Keeping the Night Watch

by Smith, Hope Anita

A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with ...

The Underneath

by Appelt, Kathi

An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many oth...